Although most providers are familiar with the symptoms of Lyme disease, coinfection with other tickborne illnesses such as babesiosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and human monocytic ehrlichiosis is possible and becoming more prevalent.
Triatoma sanguisuga insect can transmit parasite that causes Chagas disease.
Rising temperatures contribute to more ticks and greater availability of hosts.
Most of those cases were Lyme disease.
An outbreak of flea-borne typhus in Los Angeles County has so far resulted in 57 cases, including 20 in Pasadena and 9 in downtown Los Angeles.
Both doses will be supplied in single-dose, prefilled syringes for manual injection.
Diagnostic and surveillance limitations and lack of treatment options, vaccines hamper efforts.
Asian longhorned tick currently considered a greater threat to livestock than to humans.
The United States has the seventh highest prevalence of Chagas infection in the Western hemisphere, with most cases seen among immigrants from Latin America.
Lone star tick is most common in the South, but may be spreading to new areas
